Arts + Culture

In The Knowing, the Anishinaabe author documents her quest to find her great-great grandmother and unravels a tale of the shameful history of Canada’s Indian Residential School system. Award-winning author, journalist and filmmaker Tanya Talaga will be at the Playhouse Cinema on Thursday, Oct. 10 as part of…

Dejehan Hamilton is using his knowledge and experience to lift up other racialized musicians and help them navigate the industry. It’s well known that music is a tough way to make a living, so a 12-week program called The Blueprint is aiming to make the road a little…

Hamilton publishing house now includes three imprints producing fiction, non-fiction and poetry that challenge, enchant and refuse to conform. Sandwiched between restaurants on James Street North, you’ll find Wolsak and Wynn, a self-professed “charmingly contrary literary press” that’s been publishing challenging, enchanting, unusual, and often award-winning books…

This production explores male friendship through the lens of basketball’s larger-than-life LeBron James and the triumph and heartbreak of being a diehard sports fan. It's not necessary to be a basketball devotee in order to enjoy Theatre Aquarius’s debut production of the season, but it sure helps to…

Are human beings born with memories? A new collection of essays by pediatric clinical geneticist Margaret Nowaczyk probes her fascination with the mystery of inherited awareness – what she calls marrow memory. On a dreary afternoon more than two decades ago, Margaret Nowaczyk received the flimsy airmail envelope…

She explores her own cancer diagnosis, loss of loved ones, racism, pain, and global migration through her fibre and fabric art works. I visited Ravinder Ruprai’s short-term studio nestled in an idyllic Strathcona garden where two massive box frames awaited their transformation. One loomed over us on its…